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From: Nigel Roles <nigel@9fs.org>
Subject: RE: alef on sources
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 07:20:39 +0100

9fans-bounces+ngr=9fs.org@cse... wrote:
>> I told them "Do you know who wrote tetris?"
>> One replied "someone American?".
>> I said "No, Russian" (Is it right?)
>> 
> Popular theory (well, my own half-baked one anyway...):
> Tetris was a soviet/communist plot to distract all capitalists from
> the work they were supposed to be doing. ;-)
> 
> No native p9 port yet, is there. Hmmm...
> 
> --Joel

Well, 3rd edition had games/4s and games/5s. 5s looked an awful lot
like Tetris to me.